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March 10 - March 16, 2005 Edition
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Waters receives honors March 10, 2005 Dan Waters (left) receives volunteer award from Rep. Eric Turkington. Photo Courtesy of Dan Waters Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council member Daniel Waters of West Tisbury was one of three people in the state to receive the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Leadership Circle Award for Outstanding Volunteers on March 2. Representative Eric Turkington, House Chair of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development, presented the award at the State House. Rep. Turkington also presented a congratulatory certificate from the Massachusetts House of Representatives, signed by himself and Speaker of the House Salvatore F. DiMasi. Senator Edward Kennedy praised the volunteers in his keynote address. Mr. Waters won the award for working to regionalize the Island’s six town cultural councils into a unified Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council, enabling the councils to pool resources, streamline council administration, and broaden their vision in granting decisions. “He may not want to acknowledge this,” joked Mr. Turkington, “but Daniel Waters is a consummate politician. Anyone who knows the six towns of Martha’s Vineyard, as I do, knows how hard it is to get all six to pull together to support anything at all.” “I’m a little overwhelmed by all the attention,” said Mr. Waters, a poet and printer. “But I’m delighted to see the spotlight turned on our local council, its 18 volunteers, and the hard work they all do. In these first two years, the new council has taken enormous strides toward growing into a truly effective umbrella organization for the arts on the Vineyard.” Now in its third year, the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council announced $16,427 in grants to about two dozen Island artists and organizations, including the Vineyard Playhouse’s Teen Theatre Express, The Yard’s Dance Residency, the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society’s Vineyard Voices project, and the Martha’s Vineyard Independent Film Festival. The council hopes to expand private donations to supplement state funding. “We were thrilled to see Dan get the recognition he deserves,” said council chair Joanne Horgan. “As a regional body, the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council can do so much more for the Island community as a whole.”

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